Founded in 1993, the company is a machine tool supply and service company serving North America. Its focus is on automation, production and manufacturing. ...

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About All World Machinery

Founded in 1993, the company is a machine tool supply and service company serving North America. Its focus is on automation, production and manufacturing. As a Daikin subsidiary it carries a full line of Daikin products, but also offers products from other manufacturers in industries such as metal cutting and plastics.

The company also has bearing supply, hydraulics, pneumatics and motion control parts as well as industrial electrical supplies.

All World also provides engineering and field service support and product repairs.

ROSCOE — A Harvard company that designs, services, builds and supplies a variety of hydraulic, pneumatic and motion-control parts will relocate to Roscoe after Illinois won what amounted to a bidding war with the state of Wisconsin.

The state of Illinois is investing $1.7 million in tax credits and cash to improve roads and extend sewer and water service to a property at the northeast corner of Willowbrook and Rockton roads for the new headquarters of All World Machinery Supply Inc.

All World employs 72 people in Harvard in a facility of about 20,000 square feet and is well known in the Rockford manufacturing community, already counting Woodward Inc., Ingersoll Machine Tools, GE Aviation and Kaney Aerospace among its customers and partners. All World hired Cord Construction of Rockford to build a multiphase building that will begin at 38,000 square feet, with plans to expand it to more than 100,000.

All World Machinery President David Koepp said he expected to have between 150 and 175 workers at the Roscoe location within five years. The company will be adding workers in shipping, warehousing and manufacturing production along with service technicians and design engineers.

Access to and visibility from Interstate 90 was a key, and both Roscoe and Beloit had properties available along the highway.

“Wisconsin came in with a very strong offer, but all of the company leadership lives in Illinois, and we wanted to stay in Illinois if possible,” said Koepp, who lives in Caledonia. “In the end, the state and the local governments really stepped up.”

Along with the state incentives, the various government entities that will receive property tax revenue from the new operation agreed in principal to a 50 percent tax abatement for All World for five years. The agreements still must be ratified by the various boards and councils.

Roscoe Village President Dave Krienke praised the combined efforts for Monday’s announcement.

“This shows what you can accomplish when you have everyone working together with a shared vision.”

The announcement is the latest in a series of victories by Illinois in the border war with Wisconsin. In the past several years, Wisconsin has tried to lure companies such as Field Fastener of Loves Park, Forest City Gear of Roscoe and Woodward Inc. to expand or build new plants there rather than in Illinois. The most significant stateline company that did end up leaving Illinois for Wisconsin was Fat Wallet Inc., an Internet bargain shopping site, which moved from Rockton to Beloit in 2011.

Page 2 of 2 - Koepp said he hopes the first phase of the building will be ready to be occupied by December. He said the company would like to ramp up the hiring process now — he estimated the average yearly pay for the company is $50,000 — but simply doesn’t have enough space in its Harvard buildings.

Of course, the hiring can’t come soon enough for the Rock River Valley economy. The Boone-Winnebago counties’ jobless rate fell to 9.2 percent in April, marking the first time the local unemployment rate has been below 10 percent since 2008.